Hardback. The first four volumes of a many-volume set. The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle opens a window onto the lives of two of the Victorian world's most accomplished, perceptive, and unusual inhabitants. Scottish writer and historian Thomas Carlyle and his wife, Jane Welsh Carlyle, attracted to them a circle of foreign exiles, radicals, feminists, revolutionaries, and major and minor writers from across Europe and the United States. The collection is regarded as one of the finest and most comprehensive literary archives of the nineteenth century. Correspondents include: Lord Ashburton, Robert Browning, Charles Butler, Julia Margaret Cameron, Erasmus Darwin, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Ralph Waldo Emerson, John Forster, Elizabeth Gaskell, Anne and Alexander Gilchrist, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Geraldine Jewsbury, John Stuart Mill, John Ruskin, Alfred Tennyson, William M. Thackeray, Ivan Turgenev. All Four Volumes in good condition. With slipcase. Light tanning on front and back pages and on outside page edges. Slipcase has some scuffing marks and small tears at edges.Please Note - As this a heavy 4 Vol. set, contact us for postage costs.